Wallace Shawn Quotes
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
Wallace Shawn
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
Ted Turner
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
Rachel McAdams
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
Nate Silver
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
Tavi Gevinson
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I didn't necessarily intend it for myself, but it just happens with Instagram and Twitter; people come up to me and call me Emrata; they don't call me Emily. That's my brand, my identity.
Emily Ratajkowski
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With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
Bob Newhart
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Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
Gabrielle Roth
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Imagine you wake up one morning with a knock at the door, and when you answer, there's Denzel Washington announcing that he's going to be filming on your street for several weeks.
Stephen Henderson
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Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
Wallace Shawn
